The Valencian Government can finally claim victory with the issue of regional financing.

First, because the Ministry of Finance has activated the reform of the model by sending its proposal to the autonomous communities, something that the Ministry of Finance had been demanding for years.

And second, because the Valencian claim passed through a basic requirement: that María Jesús Montero's document

revolve around the adjusted population criterion

.

And so it has been, as highlighted by Minister Vicent Soler, who valued the Ministry document "very positively": "For the first time since the financing system was created in 2002, there is a proposal for a distribution criterion based on the adjusted population, and especially based on demographic variables, which will

make it possible to end the current discrimination suffered by Valencians

". In the opinion of Soler, who recently took to the streets to protest against the blocking of financing - along with the rest of the parties, employers and unions - the new approach of the Treasury "prevents spending needs from being distorted and increases the weight of variables such as health, education or social services ".

In fact, the thesis of the Valencian Community has always been that the starting point should be to be able to pay for public services based on the amount of population to be served, regardless of other criteria wielded by emptied Spain .

And this scenario is that the current model was no longer met, as reported by the Generalitat and corroborated by Fedea's figures.

The last liquidation of the system in 2019 left the

Valencian Community as the worst financed region

in Spain, with 2,618 euros per inhabitant, compared to 3,321 in Cantabria.

Hence, the Valencian PP has regretted that, however, the so-called historical debt is not given out, that is, the one accumulated during all these years of under-financing of the Valencian Community with a model that has expired since 2014.

The 'Valencian Way'

In this way, the initial document to begin the reform of regional financing -whose model has already expired for seven years- approaches the path that the Valencian Community leads, but

in which the Region of Murcia and Andalusia are also

.

It was the model that the Treasury liked the most, as this newspaper published, although the Ministry itself tries to show that it also approaches some of the criteria requested by the eight communities that represent empty Spain. "The proposal submitted by the Executive includes corrective variables that take into account

the higher cost implied by depopulation

or insularity, as well as incorporating more robust, detailed and realistic indicators to set the distribution of health, educational and social services spending", they aim.

In addition, the Treasury emphasizes that it is an initial text, which the communities must study and complete with their proposals.

And they add that the objective is that all regions benefit, which is why they insist that the G-8 of depopulated Spain also do so.

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